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Rob Govers
Researcher at Utrecht University
Publications - 102
Citations - 4588
Rob Govers is an academic researcher from Utrecht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Subduction & Plate tectonics. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 90 publications receiving 4044 citations. Previous affiliations of Rob Govers include Pennsylvania State University.
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Lithosphere tearing at STEP faults: response to edges of subduction zones
Rob Govers,M. J. R. Wortel +1 more
TL;DR: The Subduction Transform Edge Propagator (STEP) as mentioned in this paper is a relatively common feature in plate tectonics and is referred to as a subduction-transform edge propagator.
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Shallow mantle temperatures under Europe from P and S wave tomography
TL;DR: In this paper, Bijwaard et al. used tomographic models of the shallow mantle under Europe to estimate the temperature at 50 to 200 km depth under the Russian Platform.
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The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences
Marco Roveri,Rachel Flecker,Wout Krijgsman,Johanna Lofi,Stefano Lugli,Vinicio Manzi,Francisco Javier Sierro,Adele Bertini,Angelo Camerlenghi,Gert J. de Lange,Rob Govers,Frits Hilgen,Christian Hübscher,Paul Meijer,Marius Stoica +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a unifying stratigraphic framework of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) events has been constructed, derived mainly from onshore data and observations, but incorporating different perspectives for the offshore and provides hypotheses that can be tested by drilling the deep Mediterranean basins.
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Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change
Rachel Flecker,Wout Krijgsman,Walter Capella,César C. Martins,Evelina Dmitrieva,Jan Peter Mayser,Alice Marzocchi,Sevasti Modestu,Diana Ochoa,Dirk Simon,M. A. Tulbure,Bas C.J. van den Berg,Marlies Van der Schee,Gert J. de Lange,Rob M. Ellam,Rob Govers,Marcus Gutjahr,Frits Hilgen,Tanja Kouwenhoven,Johanna Lofi,Johanna Lofi,Paul Meijer,Francisco J. Sierro,Naima Bachiri,N. Barhoun,Abdelwahid Chakor Alami,Beatriz Chacón,José A. Flores,John Gregory,James P. Howard,Daniel J. Lunt,Maria Ochoa,Rich D Pancost,Stephen J. Vincent,M. Z. Yousfi +34 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the Late Miocene gateways and the nature of Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange as deduced from published studies focussed both on the sediments preserved within the fossil corridors and inferences that can be derived from data in the adjacent basins.
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Fore-arc motion and Cocos Ridge collision in Central America
Peter LaFemina,Peter LaFemina,Timothy H. Dixon,Rob Govers,Edmundo Norabuena,H. L. Turner,Armando Saballos,Glen S. Mattioli,Marino Protti,Wilfried Strauch +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the first regional surface velocity field for Central America, showing crustal response to interaction of the Cocos and Caribbean plates, and they infer that buoyant, thickened CNS-2-Cocos Ridge crust resists normal subduction and instead acts as an indenter to the Caribbean plate, driving crustal shortening in southern Costa Rica and contributing to trench-parallel fore-arc motion in Nicaragua as a type of tectonic escape.